My hard drive appears to be dying.
I have been attempting to recover sme data from it. I have a copy of windows on another drive but I am unable to start up this second windows while the broken drive is installed internally. The computer is unable to load past the motherboard splash screen, or it stops just after this goes blank. However the second hdd's windows starts up fine when i have not connected the dying hdd.
The dying hdd can work briefly and when it was the sole installed drive it managed to load up the screen with windows' offer to start up in safe mode but no further.
Would my chances of recovering data be improved by using a USB-HDD adaptor cable?
I have been attempting to recover sme data from it. I have a copy of windows on another drive but I am unable to start up this second windows while the broken drive is installed internally. The computer is unable to load past the motherboard splash screen, or it stops just after this goes blank. However the second hdd's windows starts up fine when i have not connected the dying hdd.
The dying hdd can work briefly and when it was the sole installed drive it managed to load up the screen with windows' offer to start up in safe mode but no further.
Would my chances of recovering data be improved by using a USB-HDD adaptor cable?